WOYWW

Good morning - another WOYWWednesday has whizzed round!

This week I have been making my annual fund raisers - Katie Morag outfits for World Book Day. I popped them on ebay and any funds raised will go to our local cancer charity.

The jumper already has bids on it so that's good.

The little skirt is made to look like a little kilt in cosy brushed cotton.

Hopefully, I am back to full bounce this week!!
I have more energy and even managed a 4 mile walk around Attingham park on Sunday.

I am rushing to get organised today - Tilly is coming to do some wet felting and I have Ben later after school.

I hope you are all well and not too blown away by the storms over the last few days.

xx Jo

WOYWW

Here we are again - happy as can be - all good friends and jolly good company!

I don't know where this song comes from but it came into my head the minute I sat down to do my WOYWW post!

These pictures sum up my week....

• Knitting chics for charity...

•   Making a little Katie Morag dressing up kilt...

•  Making a quick cake for hubby's birthday so we can pop a candle on it when Ben comes to call. (When I say quick - I mean really quick - don't look at the detail!). We bought a spitfire cookie cutter at RAF Cosford Air Museum last week and I couldn't resist using it for the cake decoration.....

• Lastly, my friend and I bought fabric for angels wings, Red Riding hood cloak and another cloak. So I will be busy over the next few weeks...

I hope you don't have too much snow. It was wet and cold here yesterday so who knows what will arrive today. Thank goodness we can keep warm and cosy and have some play time fun!

Have a good week.

xx Jo

WOYWW - overdrive!

Good morning all - WOYWWers and everyone else who likes a snoop to see what I am up to!

Well this week I am in top gear or maybe even overdrive! (Am I showing my age there?- I suppose it was before 5th gear was invented).

The little sewing room is taking shape and I have spent a few hours clearing and sorting - it still seems a never ending task but it is looking more like a place I want to spend time in. I might even show and tell next week.
This week you can see the results of my busy sewing and knitting fingers....

I had a fab red linen shirt which I decided would make two cushion covers to go on my new Ikea sofa cover in my breakfast kitchen. It was tricky making sure I had enough bits to patchwork together but I managed to make a matching pair. They each have a little pocket so that I can hide little treasures in there for Ben.

 The other cushion is one that I made from a recycled aran jumper a while ago.

Next, are a couple of twiddle mitts or probably "muff" is the right word. (Stop sniggering - you know who you are!!)
We seemed to cause a few giggles with these over the last week or so!
If you would like to know more then click this link here.
It does seem like a great idea  so we tried to add extra textures and bits and bobs to twiddle.

AND lastly one of my little Katie Morag skirts complete with faux kilt pin!

So that's it for this week.
I think I will have another busy week ahead.
I am knitting a little aran jumper for Ben and that is certainly keeping me awake as I have to follow the pattern line by line.

I hope you enjoyed your snoop around.
Have a great week.

x Jo

WOYWW - fancy a bit of twiddling?

I try to join in with WOYWW each week but some weeks (like last week) fly by leaving me wondering where the time went!
I know what I did in any spare moments - I made 24 little spaceman tabards in silver spandex with planets on the front! They were fab and I got them all parcelled up and handed over, then realised that I hadn't taken a photo of any of them!! All that work and nothing to show for them!
So, this week I am definitely going to show you what I have been up to...

While the men were out at footie we "ladies" knitted twiddle mitts.
If you would like to know more then click this link here.
We are making ours for a local charity in Ludlow.

Here is Annie modelling an alternative use...

Note the little bobble which we thought looked like a little nose.
We had quite a giggle thinking of items that we could attach to be twiddled!

This is the one I finished this morning.

I have loads of chunky wool oddments so I will probably make a few more - as I always say.. knitting stops me from falling asleep when tv gets a bit tedious.

My table is loaded with bits and bobs.

I have made a couple of Katie Morag skirts. They were very popular for World Book Day dressing up costumes last year. I will put them on ebay again, I think.

We have Ben here today and he has just woken from his afternoon nap so I am off to do nanny duties and have fun singing and reading stories. He is a happy little chap!

Thanks for dropping in - have a great week.

x Jo